Central Te Hoe

We (my son, my Dad and myself) are planning our first fly-in trip - to Central Te Hoe Hut, late March / early April. Looks like steep country with plenty of options to explore up the rivers and creeks and plenty of slips. We've walked into Skips Hut and Rogers Hut a few times; not sure how similar the bush is around Central Te Hoe? Keen to take a rod as well as a riffle. Any tips for successful fishing and hunting in this area from people who have been in there would be very much appreciated. Cheers.

Cool Hut. I was there a couple of weeks ago. Downstream of the Hut the river is swift so you need to be careful crossing. Lots of nettle. The area was 1080d in August so I would avoid taking a dog. There are nice flats upstream. The track towards Mangakahika goes through some nice country.

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Originally Posted by clifford

We (my son, my Dad and myself) are planning our first fly-in trip - to Central Te Hoe Hut, late March / early April. Looks like steep country with plenty of options to explore up the rivers and creeks and plenty of slips. We've walked into Skips Hut and Rogers Hut a few times; not sure how similar the bush is around Central Te Hoe? Keen to take a rod as well as a riffle. Any tips for successful fishing and hunting in this area from people who have been in there would be very much appreciated. Cheers.

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What was the hunting like around Rogers? Long walk in?

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Originally Posted by Blackfern

What was the hunting like around Rogers? Long walk in?

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We walked from okahu to Rodgers and back in a day, relatively flat easy walk.
Plenty of nice shallow rivers to hut up around the hut

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Originally Posted by Blackfern

What was the hunting like around Rogers? Long walk in?

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Like said above the rivers beds at this time of year are a good option. Otherwise the bush around Rogers is pretty tight, quietly walking the stoat-lines at the right time of day can be worthwhile...

culled in there early seventies doubt hunting has changed much - my favourite area was the long ridge upstream on south side or true right above hut- on wams the ridge with the word River at bottom first decent side stream up stream from Tehoe hut - goes up to high points marked 1113 1114 1314 1330 once you get the first big grunt out of the way the ridge is not to bad - was great roar country but be good at map work it can be tricky - but I have not been there for years and I know the big Easter storm some time ago did do a lot of damage - straight opposite hut on true left is damn steep - was great trout fishing - but some gnarly crossings downstream close to hut - but then those rivers can change good luck- we used to pick up a lot of deer down close to river late evening

Thanks for the heads up about the river and nettle (bugger of a plant). I didn't know about the 1080 - hopefully it hasn't hit the deer too hard. I'll have a look at the flats upstram and the track towards Mangakahika - thanks for the info!

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Originally Posted by Blackfern

What was the hunting like around Rogers? Long walk in?

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The bush is pretty dense around Rogers. Several stoat lines that can be followed to get further off the track. About 2 hrs to Skips and another 1.5 hrs to Rogers - the first half of the track from Skips to Rogers is a bit steep.

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Originally Posted by Barry the hunter

culled in there early seventies doubt hunting has changed much - my favourite area was the long ridge upstream on south side or true right above hut- on wams the ridge with the word River at bottom first decent side stream up stream from Tehoe hut - goes up to high points marked 1113 1114 1314 1330 once you get the first big grunt out of the way the ridge is not to bad - was great roar country but be good at map work it can be tricky - but I have not been there for years and I know the big Easter storm some time ago did do a lot of damage - straight opposite hut on true left is damn steep - was great trout fishing - but some gnarly crossings downstream close to hut - but then those rivers can change good luck- we used to pick up a lot of deer down close to river late evening

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Thanks Barry! Really useful - having a look at wams I can see exactly where you're talking about :) Will check it out!

There will be about a gazillion mosquitos hanging around Rodgers this time of year.

I remember 12 vehicles at the Pukahunui road end one weekend in April. Many were in the Te Hoe catchment.
Always a few fly in over that period also.

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Originally Posted by 7mmwsm

There will be about a gazillion mosquitos hanging around Rodgers this time of year.

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That's for sure! Heading in there in a couple of weeks for a long weekend. Planning on kill a mosquitos while we're in there. Hopefully a deer as well :)